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Canada Emergency Student Benefit: What Students Need To Know
The CESB will give $1,250 a month to students impacted by COVID-19. After weeks of worry about being left out of the CERB, COVID-19 financial relief is finally coming for Canadian post-secondary students. On Wednesday, Justin Trudeau’s federal...
E-learning begins for Ontario students amid COVID-19 school closures
Students across Ontario began online learning Monday, more than three weeks after COVID-19 shuttered schools in the name of physical distancing. Teachers will lead the effort with both live and pre-recorded lessons, but some parents said the move is already posing...
UNWTO LAUNCHES A CALL FOR ACTION FOR TOURISM’S COVID-19 MITIGATION AND RECOVERY
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has released a set of recommendations calling for urgent and strong support to help the global tourism sector not only recover from the unprecedented challenge of COVID-19 but to ‘grow back better’. The Recommendations are the...
Tourism and COVID-19 – UNWTO and WHO Call for Responsibility and Coordination
As the current outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) continues to develop, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) are committed to working together in guiding the travel and tourism sectors’ response to COVID-19. On 30...
TOURISM AND COVID-19
Updated April 1 2020 UNWTO also calls upon the sector and travelers to address this challenge with sound judgment and proportionate measures. Tourism is currently one of the most affected sectors and UNWTO has revised its 2020 forecast for international arrivals and...
Oil-rich wealth funds seen shedding up to $225 billion in stocks
LONDON (Reuters) - Sovereign wealth funds from oil-producing countries mainly in the Middle East and Africa are on course to dump up to $225 billion in equities, a senior banker estimates, as plummeting oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic hit state finances. The...
Sunda Ghana boosts health and safety procedures at factories against COVID-19
Safety procedures at the premises of Sunda Ghana Limited, producers of Kleesoft range of products has been boosted with strict adherence to health directives in a bid to curtail the spread of the coronavirus in Ghana. Ghana has so far recorded 132 cases of the disease...
Tourism industry players hopeful of stimulus package after GTA’s economic impact assessment
Operators in the country’s tourism and hospitality sector say they are expecting an intervention by government when the regulator, the Ghana Tourism Authority, completes an economic impact assessment of the COVID-19 on their operations. The coronavirus has not only...
COVID-19: UPSA students demand government’s intervention over e-learning ‘restriction’
Some students of the University of Professional Studies, Accra have called on the management of the school to review its e-learning policy in the wake of the coronavirus-induced shut down of schools. Citi News understands that the management of the University...
How are food supply networks coping with coronavirus?
Continuing pictures of empty shelves at UK supermarkets have sparked ongoing worries about food shortages. The supermarkets are confident that they can cope, not least because there is a limit to how much people can sensibly stockpile. So they believe that shopping...
Government introduces Canada Emergency Response Benefit to help workers and businesses
News release March 25, 2020 - Ottawa, Ontario - Department of Finance Canada The Government of Canada is taking strong, immediate and effective action to protect Canadians and the economy from the impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic. No Canadian should have...
U.S. could become new epicentre of coronavirus pandemic, WHO says
The United States has the potential to become the new epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic due to a “very large acceleration” in infections there, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The highly contagious respiratory virus has infected more than 42,000...
Unemployment claims reach nearly one million as businesses battered by coronavirus pandemic
Nearly one million Canadians applied for unemployment benefits since the beginning of last week as sweeping business shutdowns related to COVID-19 deliver an unprecedented blow to the country’s work force. A source familiar with the data confirmed that the government...
COVID-19 Educational Disruption and Response
The number of children, youth and adults not attending schools or universities because of COVID-19 is soaring. Governments all around the world have closed educational institutions in an attempt to contain the global pandemic(link is external). ...
COVID-19: SKEMA Among the First Global Business Schools to Offer All Courses Online in Five Continents
PARIS, March 23, 2020 /CNW/ -- With the temporary closure of SKEMA's Suzhou campus in China in mid-January, SKEMA had already set up a comprehensive distance learning system to ensure the continuity of studies for its 550 students present on the...